Hello Brian. Thank you for the note. Let me tell you about my frustrations over the last week. First of all, I have a bad back and the idea of driving "somewhere" with my laptop and waiting around for the repair is not as attractive as someone coming to my place. Would save me a ton of genuine pain. The guy who was to repair my beast was suppose to come over on Monday (last week) and he completely blew me off without telling me. He did arrive on Tues. but stated that my internal CD/DVD burner was on the fritz and he didn't have a portable plug-in with him ... he would be back the next day ... which he again blew off. That is essentially my frustration ... people being flaky. My deal with him was for $85.00/hr. and he did't think it would take more than an hour but no guarantees; see how it goes. Anybody want to try a similar offer? If not I'm off to the Windows
guy and I cross my fingers. Plus, I have to take my beast to him. My back will love that. So once again, anyone with genuine confidence in what they're doing? Not looking for miracles, just for competence and punctuality. The only guarantee I currently have is that I have a $1400. piece of useless equipment holding up a research project I want to get going. What fun.

I suggest using Ubuntu on a stick. Boot with it. Copy yourdata to an external drive. Run the "Install Ubuntu and wipeit clean!" Start fresh.

Every consulting gig comes not only with potential for profit,but also the risk of liability. We don't really know how badyour system is, so I would say that anyone who agrees on a fixedprice may be in for more work that he initially bargained for, especiallyconsidering that you are tired of fixing the problem and you mayhave foobar'ed your system beyond wizard fixes.

brian

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:03:43PM -0700, Dr. Denny Scronek wrote:> > Hi Linux folks. Remember me ... the guy with the ubuntu infinite login> loop problem? I still have the same problem and I'm not further along> in solving it because the guy who was supposed
to do this PAYING JOB> was a complete flake. Fortunately all I lost was time so. This is what> I am looking for:> > 1. A human being who will step up to the plate and fix my beast.> > 2. I live near Sac State. Come to my place, do your magic to my> satisfation, get paid by an agreed amount, I say "Thank You", and> that's it.> > 3. I DO NOT WANT ANY MORE ADVICE ON FIXING IT MYSELF!! I'm trying to> avoid taking my beast to a computer store to be worked on by a Windows> person.> > WHO WANTS TO MAKE SOME MONEY?